It shall consist of one nominee from each member state, the statement added.
The expected outcomes of the BIMSTEC TTF are - Databank of technologies available in BIMSTEC Countries; Repository of information on good practices in the areas of technology transfer management, standards, accreditation, metrology, testing and calibration facilities; Capacity building, sharing of experiences and good practices in development; and Transfer and use of technologies among BIMSTEC countries. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved a Memorandum of Association by India for establishment of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Technology Transfer Facility which was signed by the BIMSTEC member countries at the 5th BIMSTEC Summit held at Colombo, Sri Lanka on 30 March.
The main objectives of the BIMSTEC TTF are to coordinate, facilitate and strengthen cooperation in technology transfer among the BIMSTEC Member States by promoting the transfer of technologies, sharing of experiences and capacity building, read a statement.
The TTF shall facilitate transfer of technologies among the BIMSTEC member states, amongst other things, in areas including biotechnology, nanotechnology, information and communication technology, space technology applications, agricultural technology, food processing technology, pharmaceutical technology automation, new and renewable energy technology automation, new and renewable energy technology, oceanography, nuclear technology applications, E-waste and solid waste management technology, health technologies, technologies pertinent to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
The TTF shall have a governing board and the overall control of activities of the TTF shall be vested in the governing board.
It is largely by technology that contemporary society hangs together. This latter branch of the philosophy of technology seeks continuity with the philosophy of science and with several other fields in the analytic tradition in modern philosophy, such as the philosophy of action and decision-making, rather than with the humanities and social science. Only recently a branch of the philosophy of technology has developed that is concerned with technology itself and that aims to understand both the practice of designing and creating artifacts (in a wide sense, including artificial processes and systems) and the nature of the things so created. It is hugely important not only as an economic force but also as a cultural force. If philosophy is the attempt “to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”, as Sellars (1962) put it, philosophy should not ignore technology. Indeed during the last two centuries, when it gradually emerged as a discipline, philosophy of technology has mostly been concerned with the meaning of technology for, and its impact on, society and culture, rather than with technology itself. Mitcham (1994) calls this type of philosophy of technology “humanities philosophy of technology” because it accepts “the primacy of the humanities over technologies” and is continuous with the overall perspective of the humanities (and some of the social sciences).
The entry starts with a brief historical overview, then continues with a presentation of the themes on which modern analytic philosophy of technology focuses. This is followed by a discussion of the societal and ethical aspects of technology, in which some of the concerns of humanities philosophy of technology are addressed. This twofold presentation takes into consideration the development of technology as the outcome of a process originating within and guided by the practice of engineering, by standards on which only limited societal control is exercised, as well as the consequences for society of the implementation of the technology so created, which result from processes upon which only limited control can be exercised.
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